(þt h .......... I ' J I ;.:'.," ! ,.';.,.., ' .. ." . c-- \ . ., - .: l ,.- .. ... ,. jur ; . -:: 35 , éo \ '\ .' fj . =:; ............ / ..," - j!; , . . ::: ..,:.: . ':;.... "';,.. ,;. :-::; :..',.,:':. ,. ., ,:' . .,. ,: '. .'" J --' A? ((What I do is, first I take tt to one garage and find out what's the matter with it, then I take it to another garage and tell them what's the matter wtth it." rain of ticker tape will be greatly appre- ciated and will foster international good will in this World Capital. Sincerely, EMMA ALDEN ROTH BLATT A postscript reads: The next ticker tape parade will be on May 23 in- honor of H. E. Dr. Sukarno, president of the Republic of Indonesia. The parade will be from the Battery to City H alJ at noon The cooperation of firms en route is requested. Thi coöperation was forthcoming. The Times was able to report, anent PresIdent Sukarno's welcome, "He rode in an open car down Broadway for the cit}' s traditional ticker-tape parade." Not a word in the Times, however, about the news behInd the news! In the interests of establishing myself journalis- tically, and showing up the Tzmes, I telephoned Mr. Moore and asked him what really happened. His reply was: "Our Associãtion has a hundred and fifty members-mostly big corporations and building owners, such as the Amer- ican Express Company and the Chase Manhattan Bank-from Canal Street to the tip of Manhattan. W e found that ticker tape was not coming down the way it used to President Gronchi, of Italy, and President Berres, of Uruguay, two dignitaries who preceded President Sukarno, got hardly any ticker tape at all. These foreign dig- nitaries look forward to ticker tdpe, and they were disappointed. It makes an interesting display, and they felt a . . little deprived. We looked in to the mat- ter, after being nudged by Commission- er Patterson's office, and found that the reason for the dearth of ticker tape is that most brokerage offices now use electronic devices and don't have ticker tape. Or not much, anyway. Some of them have substitute ticker-tape ma- chines, for emergenc} use. The Stock Exchange has these, and we made use of them. We got the Exchange to save up old ticker tape for a week prior to Sukarno's visit, and had this put in bags and delivered by Sanitation Department trucks to the buildings along his route. So the SanItation people cleaned up the stuff they themselves had brought a while earlier! In future, we hope to start the Exchange saving up ticker tape ten days ahead of a distin- guished visitor. This will enable us to make a really brave showing." . \Vell, there you are. The \Vorld Capital's enthusiastIc, spontaneous tick- er-tape parades are being pelted by stale stock-market quotations, and my name is Lincoln Steffens. If President Sukarno picked up any of that paper and acted on it as an investor, he's a gone goose. That's no way to improve relations with Indonesia, or with all the other countries that keep sen ding us dignitaries. The picture of the Chase Manhattan Bank handing out, or throwing out, oisleading market prIces is an unsettling one. I suggest that the Downtown Manhattan Association provide its members with bundles of up-to-date Wall Street Journals and a few gross of shears Then those junket- ing Presidents, busy in their \Valdorf suites with pots of glue, will have some- thing to go on. -GEoFFREY T. HELLMAN . ANNIVE..RS AI\. Y \Vhere were we in that afternoon? And where is the high room now, the bed on which you laid your hair as bells beat early in the still air? A two o'clock of sun and "hutters. Oh, recall the chair's angle-a stripe of shadow on the wall- the hours we gathered in our hands, and then let fall. Wrist on wrist, we relive memory: shel1 of moon on day sky, two o'clock in lazy June- and twenty years gone in an afternoon. -RICHMOND LATTIMORE